Help me or Shoot Me Now!

[dunelover]

I am going thru this need to purge right now myself. I am deciding that I don't have to keep things out of guilt!!! Or like someone else said, because my mother did. A big garage sale is in order in early fall for me!

I read somewhere of someone taking digital pic's of kids precious artwork, etc. Then you can store it so much easier. If I stay on my current pace of one bin per kid of school work, per year that will be 36 bins!!! What will I ever do w/ that? :shock:

I am looking at all these simple, easy on the eye environments and trying to make mine fit. It is all about simple for me, not clutter anymore. I have been wondering, who has room for all that in a beach house anyway?

 

[Poodleone]

Two things helped me (another lifelong packrat):
1) Remembering what it was like to declutter my mother's house when we moved her to a nursing home. I don't have kids so who would even want 99% of my cr*p?

2) Moving into the new house this year- just plain didn't want to pay to have most of it moved and/or move it myself. I really, really want this house to be as simple and easy to manage as possible.

These things are easy to say- hard to do! Leaving my 40 year old piano behind was probably the toughest but my housekeeper has kids who would get some real use out of it. 2nd hardest- getting rid of record albums. Rule was less than 100! That was alot of records to say goodbye to!

 

[ladyj]

Here's what I do.
If I find something while cleaning out a closet or whatever and think "Wow! I didn't know I had that!" then it's safe to give away.

 

[NoHall]

I am now having trouble in purging personal items. Cards, letters, pictures my children gave me over the years. I now have a huge stack of storage bins to hold all my treasures.

That's my problem, too. Pictures, cards, letters, wedding invitations (I do toss those when the divorce is final!) newspaper clippings, programs...

I actually LOOK at some of them again. I just don't know what to do with them to store them!

 

[DD]

I've been avoiding this thread.

 

[Miss Kitty]

I've been avoiding this thread.

Me, too. I do have a truck coming on Saturday. It forces me to purge.

 

[whitesands]

Whooo Hoooo! I've made some headway. My closets (both clothes and linen closets) have been purged!!! My kitchen counters, shelves and pantry are now in order. I hate to say what I found in the pantry ...be that as it may...the pantry is now in order and I could still feed an army. My kitchen is humongous. Who knew?

Now...the gallery and the storage areas...lord help me...I just don't see it happening My husband still thinks all his stuff is indisposable!

 

[DD]

Whooo Hoooo! I've made some headway. My closets (both clothes and linen closets) have been purged!!! My kitchen counters, shelves and pantry are now in order. I hate to say what I found in the pantry ...be that as it may...the pantry is now in order and I could still feed an army. My kitchen is humongous. Who knew?

Now...the gallery and the storage areas...lord help me...I just don't see it happening My husband still thinks all his stuff is indisposable!

Go girl!!!

 

[Sheila]

I've been avoiding this thread.

:nono1: No, No! As I recall, you got me in deep doo in January or Febuary with all your, "I got all my craft stuff organized and blah, blah, blah." FBB saw that and was on me like a duck on a june bug! Closets, drawers, all kinds of stuff got organized at my house after that. wub: thank you!)

 

[NoHall]

I've been avoiding this thread.

I SHOULD have avoided this thread, but I didn't, and it upset me so badly I had to start my own thread.

Ignorance of cleanliness is ungodly bliss.